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ADMIN LSTHATIVE
Handling of a Sovict Defecter

1. I suggest that the story of AELADLE, from the aonent hs walked into the
home. of Martin A. HOODINE untis be uss safely under aAlAsha custody in tue Laited
States, deserves compiling, analysis, and publication in the form of an Gperae-. .
tional Ald. It riehly ilustrates the asny probless «nich oust and oan be our-
mounted, and could be nighiy lastructive to Culefe of Station in all comtries
share the a:xt Soviet aefcotor aignt appear.

“2. Here is the Frankfurt contribution (written at ay request) to such «
Compilation: a eliffhanger from atart to fiaian, but also e Ovunmentary on tne
mery types of probleus which can arise, and tne fect that.it taxes hard work and --
skillful Laprovisation to solve thes, it was a oliffnanger botn before and after

the Freakfurt chapter (1 nominate MOUDINE for @ modal for hie part) and ought to
make excellent reading.

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_ de Tne bandiing|of defectors obviously te not a new reeponsibility to tie
German Station, The (CAsZ oot facility wnich oxiste prigarily for the receipt, .
establisncent of bona fides, daortefing, and resettiasont of derectors has oxiated
here for the last decade, Hor ie the mvvenant by blaca.cvacuation-of.-cperational -
Personnel a unique task for us t= perform. We have acvcapilehed this many tines
by use of cur ow, integrated WUNIT facility and also by the furnisning of alias
Gooumentation to the person of interest and accomplishing the transport via

acheduled MATS flights. The algifioont points which cade uns ABRLADLE case uniques .

may never again in their entirety be duplicated but in part they may well be,
and therefore should bo enumerated: ‘

; a. A Soviet diploamt, and maxber ef the HIS, stationed in a nen-
_ Satellite but politically sensitive coun

Gefection was wider considerable Soviet preesure.

b. Tne fact that the actual cirowsatanses uomeermias Air ut of
‘Gefeotion were such that an immedtcte desigion by tis cam on tue scens and
to bo made to take advantage of tha opportunity.

©. The fact that little altzrzative could be given, under the facts
as described in (a) above, except to believe the defestor's statements

aad acquiesce in his demands, 1.6., he possessed information of a Significant

and perishable nature and vould disglase t¢ conpletsly only upos arrival ia
the United States. :

a. The fact that once the camitrents in (c) above were wade: every
Feasonable effort hod to be made to accommodate the defector’s demand, |

©. in order to acoomplish all this an untried method of evacuation, 1.0,
black evacuation via coamarcial alroraft had to be accomplished in order to
successfully proceed with the undertaking. ; .

aa retrospective analysis ag to how this case oawncneed, and the unique

uggest for Headquarters:
Khat 1 have lersled as.
druacatl, quite probabiy sould

study what 1 refer to as “!indings” ond “areas of ‘atudy,"
“rindings* in effect represent facts which, if not
have Guprived ws in uormany of participeting Swcsssfully in the seovenent of the

ARLADIS family. The “areas of study,” on tha other hand, ropreaent aithar anseare
Gbhle questions or matters in areas wnerdin operstional disquasions may well take
place to nee if same type of achool-book solution can be devised. .

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&. Tr@ eisdos uf AMAK onintalning in toe Buropean area at least ane ‘ield
installation havigg osaigned to it persunnel representing tus saay csapetencies
mecessary .n le intelligence Uworlakiag :@5 been recu. firmed.

2. The «iedos of ottaining appropriate security ¢isqances, sai having
Stations brief ard masse sitting of at least an AiS contact, tie resident senior
United States citizen pors.anel of Lnitea States flag air car-riers operating
eitain any Station's area.

¢. The fallacy of depending OB aSrg:cal cr obsolescent eculpasnt to

accomplish sensitive tassa of nign praority. we here refer to i7-year U->4 aire
crat.,

a. A realizaticn that a retic osists cetecen the muster of pcuple aade
evere of a given undertaking iu rolation to tne chstacles encountered in success<
fully ecoamp.isning tat undertaking.

; 6. A feu cords of elaboration ere in order an tne four prunescing pointe.
Because tne initial endeavor at clack evacustian ly AUOARKA alrcalt asorted, ue sere
given an opportumity to see with gremt clar:ty tne apdviloatizn of t::ese state. If
tne attempt to evacuste by AlUMik-sasigned aircraft bad been succeserul, tnen

knowledge of tne defection could nave been held to Spprorimateiy ols staff and
Qesigned ailitary personne). decause that endeavor uas unsuccesatul, at iesst nine
edditians! etarf ond a:iltary pereunnel.became-generally or epeci{ically auare of tne
aatter, plus tne Consul Uenoral and one of his senior ufficere. Additionally one
private luited States citizen, the eesior Pan Amerioan official in rraakfurt, became
very much.aeare of tnis sensitive case. This indrease in te nunoer of iad ividvale
cese about ef an imzediate noed jate in te evening of Saturday, 16 December,
to vee two(CARZOME stalfere to aasiat in the aefencusing function, a total of six
DETOPAL steffera (dosweentation, graphics, photagreptits) to prepare aod issue.
Craummieat end alles passpurts, and an sosigned enlisted man to act aa & safehouse
guard. Tre Cunsulate UJensral umd to affix visas to tue fraudulent passports. ' The
Bost erucial individual involved; however, was the Pen American official w.o to &

‘| Certain degree put bie position in jeopardy by being as cooperative on the aotter ia.

he whe.- bitnout previously-having cloared. ‘ené briefed this official. {iiie sounter=
part in TkA io alse wo cleared and briefed) the a:cle undertaking would rave beon
Presluded. It would Lave Leen laposaible to acconpliah Geparture without docusenta~
tion.an @ commercial aircreft. without the connivance of the coomercial airline .
involved. Imiced witn ausn ecunnlvance it uas difficult and risky oncugh. Finaliy,
the point conceming chsolcecent equipment spenks for iteelf. licadquarters is fully
Qvare of the Ceolings of this Station coswerning tne inadeyusoy for aur purpoces

of aasigned aircraft. Suffice it to aay that «hen defectors apparantly of sianifie
oar, value refuse te rids such aircraft <.: matter merita thorovg. sticty.

J. Tre atter of “areas of stviy” eppeare to us to cuocapens at least te
fellextes:

a. Average tive differences rences in transnitting high prec.sJence electrical
geemmilestions betvsen snd saaig representative gro we of otatlonn Tae
Geresn Station is extrozely fortunate in fbving AWecD alrcwits wits sond~
quarters. It affords ua a (aollity for instentanevus commeicatian. ea can
goke cortain rough eatisates as to how long it might take spoccrrinte Lead
Guartera officiala to aNewer cur queries and wo can then Approxiasts the
errivol time of answers to high precedence traffic. Ulnar Statiuns, however,
Go not have KK-26 equipment, al] do not nave tie same type of oryptological

' @quipment, and there is a different pattern aa to the type of cfroultry, 1.0.,
d@ireot leased lines. twx, etratent commercial services, ete. Wa -bolicwa tiers
fe mertt in the epprepriate Headquarters unit Ginleavering %o group geogriapie-
Joally Stations and ten based en the type of cumunluations amd ersptuloyiaal
equipment and the chamoei of trenamiasiun to coge up wlth prediotions ag to
the average length of vine the transmission of @ priority or operational
iemediate cable would take pet«cen and among the varieun representative
groupinga. In the case under. study, wiloh ropresented a rather ‘fast-breaking
‘eituation, 1% ses not pussibis. for us to walinsie we ez eth.of tics 1% tcok ©
to transait an operavigual iemediate cable metssan (Se: : esi and Frankrurt.
3 wWokid Rave Deen of value to ve to have had soto ges GN fie matter.

b, _Cramiinabivn between U8 ALC Attealiog and COS. Ne velieve it would
be worttwhile to cequest wach Chief of Statiuiin a location «nore tno Air

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Force or Havy has an essigned attache plans to establish procedures whereby the
Air or Naval Attsche «111 advise COS of eny absence of the ettaone plane, the
point of designation of tne alroreft, and the duration of the absense. inere
have been previous defections unre attache planes cere used pe. the initLal
vehicle of black evecuttion. In tno evacuation plan of [Stocktisuarjror ABLADLE,
they informed us by onble that they proposal to use, *na Attache plane. ke are
of the opinion that sben the statexent «os rade (Stisknc a jeade the assumption.
the plane was immediately availavle, As was is a

Glacowared ua the
particular plono in questi at bleabaden and not (Sibdais This, however,
wag Bone 61x hours after Giclaidin}stated ita intent to use that aircraft.
While in this particular matters eventually worked out successfully tne
story eight be otherzise in 4 diffrent set of facts. .

@. Priority furctaning of traces. then & Station is alerted to a request

to render operational support to tne noveaent of a defector and simultaneously
Onswers & request in the negative if 1t can furnish traces, tne following
procedure is worthy of stuiy. | if Headquartera pussesses, and tiae permits, wa
believe 16 worthenile to forearm an imnediate summary to the Station rendering
support if the backgrowes of the decicter is suck that it would be a catter of
local interest. This would have been the case in AELADLE. As subaequent bead-
quarters debriefing developed (and we assumed it sculd bave »een disclosed in
Meadquarters traces) AKLADLE had previcusly deena etationed in Berlin. Had such.

- -)> facts been known nere, end nad tice allowed, certain debriefing.on the borlim
pericd designed to elioit any matter of imeodinta concern could have been uader=/:

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18 December 1961

MEMORANDUM FOR: ‘fhe Record

SUBJECT: " Handling at German Station 16 and 1? December of
. Soviet Defector from Russian Embassy at. Helsinki ©

1. This pemorandus is designed to record, soon after the event,
all facts pertaining ty the handling within the German Station of the. eee cinme wee
evacuation of @ Soviet Vice Covnsg) (and-member of the K13) from the .-
Ruasion Bobesey at Helsinki. ‘At the time of this writing there ia ae
“ @t311 lacking certain information to Complete the entire story. Mowe
ever, 1t ie felt worthwhile to- record all events while the memory ia
" till fresh. In the following paragraphs the defector is referred to
as "subjet" and pseudonyms and" identities are used in all other cases.

-. 2. At appr tely 0730 hours Saturday, 16 December, Arnold J. _
LYACK (Chief, EAReONE) contacted me at my home and asked: ne. to -procesd - -
, dmmediately to the residence of Joel D. RENTHAM (Chief of Station).

arrival at BENTHUAM's residence, BENTHA J LYACK briefed me.on.... .

Lookhe t4"afintent to endeavor to:

Khdla[oable which cianounced Sts

fly subject and family “black” from[Stob

. Aly Attache airorart. Cable alao requested Frankfurt to have an aire

: Graft available to receive immediately subject and family and take off

. forthwith to the sateeeenaeans LYACK also mentioned an. IN cable froa
tooknod

. DIR which requested(s ls) to move family soonest to(CABEZONE in
. Prenkfurt for establishvsnt of bona fides. Oa

Bas Vgathen adjourned to the office and awaited more word fran
os @ithor (StSsitivin,) whioh would advise on the arrival 44@.of the family
"+ @t Prankflort, or from Headquarters sonourring in|[Stogkidim ‘s} request
“ Lor iste dsparturs of ine family for the United States upon.

-o:° @rivai al Frankfurt. EAQS was immediately alerted and they made
“+ @rengesente to have a C-54 with augmented crew prepared to depart for
" Sho United States by 1200 houra. A compartment for ‘the subject's —
_o: amily wap put in the C-54 and the regularly assigned tail number was

“:, Wemoved and a falee number put on the alroraft, Conrad V. LAPOLLA

” {Aeting Chief, COS/KUSCDA) was Sontaoted and ark-d to come to the office

immediately. Disoussions ware then held with LYACK and Carl T. UPDILL

: oS  @&@ to the availability of a KUDOVE oase officor with Hussian language
_-' @@pabLlity to act as escort.

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&. Having neara nothing from either[Stocknola]or Headquarters “ 7 2. of
by O345 hours OPIM trafric was sent, in both directions telling them -
Gernary was prepared to receive and effect immediate black evacuation :
of the faaily to tne United States, in the meantime, it had been : .
@eternined tnat IDENTITY A would be used aa the security escort and
Rossel K. MUCHANE (AD/PI Starr) would be on standby to serve as a
EXDWE escort. ‘This was a contingency arrangement because we lacked

l 19 Cprocunosy ies Dbrepared to travel with subject all the way to Washing

S- Around 1100 hours T asked Edvard P. TOCHENSKY (Chief, EAB)
* €o establish contact with the Wiesbaden Air n7sz*ower and lay on
:, SFFangements to monitor the flight of the [Stocknoig} ir Attache plane.
' This eas done decause we have had previous instances of “black™
arrivals at yea ‘here the aircraft actually arrived before the
BTA cable fron (the tatLed] diapatonine the body, At about 1115 hours . .
TOCHENSKY inforwed ‘me: iy telephone that the/Stos ola Air Attache
‘Ofrereft, a C-45, was and had been at the Wiesbaden Air Base since. yo.
(32 December, At about 1150 we cabled thie information to/Stockno1a)!/=3
ys @md DIR and als offered to dispatch an atrorart to Copenhagen to make —
- - Se Plekup if (Stdexholmoould move the body there. Because of = ;
technical difficulties involving air clearances and ‘lengths of rimways,
"W8 could not demeately get into any field north of Copenhagen.

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6. At approximately 1145 hours & cable was received fron Head=
conourring in the immediate evacuation fron Wiesbaden by EAOB
atrereft of subject's family upon arrival. If such could not be
“errenged we were then Fequested to hold subject and family at CAnEZom.
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7. Having hearg nothing tron [Stooknoig ‘by Spprixicately 1600 ~~
i | Bours: we again sent then OPIM trarfio asking that they inform us
‘ Semediately of:their intentions. I had previously left the office
erout 1450 hours tn order to get some lina end take @08 Of ane or +
tats Psrsonml items. I hea called Helson H, POLIAKOFP (Deputy for
i “~ Administration Staff) in to cover for me and had briefed him én the
| : current eitustion, when 1 returned at 1600 hours MUCHANE had
Cause into the office crapared for the trip, We then sent the “above=
weationed cable and Buszcsted that MUCHANE return to hie quarters and
emait further developments, 1 Phoned TOCHRNSKY ana Suggested that he
. _ (7 and Ris communicator retusa to-their quarters. LAPOLLA, in the means —
| : time, had gone to Rhein/Main Airport to meet an inooming staffer oarry-
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_ ‘ing clossified material and get him through Customs. ile then returned

" , to his home. I lett word with the Signal. Center Watoh Officer that
@ny incoming traffic on subjact's irip should be telaphoned immediately
®o LAPOLIA who would cong in, review the traffic and contact m-,

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' Which he and LAPOLLA took off immediately for Wiesbaden, They: took

. & 0011 from LAPOLLA that Subject-and family had arrived, the turnover

~ Wieabaden Commmicator. That message stated the BAOK aircraft was
. immediately returning to wiesbaden because of & sick passenger, Tnuzedi<

' bad gotten hold of the Air Base Flight Surgeon and was procending to

' for Wiesbaden Air Base.

a provigions were observed in: the area. Air Polise had the “Hangar 34
'; Area" blocked off two blocks in either direotion,

“ femediately arson SakG~-off subject's olx-yaareald daugitor had Desome
_ @xtronsly airsick and suffered rospirszory diffioulties, tthe vas

: Genanded that the atroraft lomediately be returned to ita point of

Wateh Officer was @lso asked ¥0, imediately phon-: the Wiesbaden Com-—

aunicator who in turn would contact TOCHENSKY and both of them would
GO to their office.

8. At approximately 1900 hours LAFOLLA conteated me at home fron 6
the eaere) fenton and informed me that an KiA and other information was qk
in from (Stodkholm J! Z,told him to stand by and { would immediately some _ ; i
in, Based on Stockhcia's)cabled statement that Martin K. ROODINE Kentes' 27, (4-1}-
of Station, Helsinkt)} was escorting subject to the United States, ‘ ~ oD ,

“told LAPOLLA not to“@lert MUCHANE. I arrived at the office at 1930 cet eeu
hours and immediately aetna eee guan’ Sergeant to buy certain :

‘types of foods and magazines that /Btodkiolmasked to be put aboard the

United States-bound Aircraft. We ‘contacted TOCHENSKY and ascertained
that EAQS was in a state of immediate readiness. David it. MULPALL
(cos/xusapa office) then arrived with IDENTITY A. IDENTITY A was given
® general briefing on the mission and his responsibility follcwing

with thes the purchases of the Guard Sergeant.

29+ I then procesded to the hone of Ronald SM, CORBANE (COS Lawyer)
where we were guests for dinner. At Spproximately 2200 hours I received

- Was made, and that the EAOB Aircraft was airborne at ®pproximately 2150
hours. I telephoned this information to e

do. At “pproximately 2245 hours I received a call from the Bignal

@tely thereafter x received a call from LAPOLLA who was at the quarters
of Arthur G@. DREIBS 1S (EAOB) in Wiesbaden, LAPOLIA stated that he

the Air Base, He brew at thet tine ro athor details. I told him Chester
B. FAGERLUMD (003 »uclosd Cificer) and myself would leave insodiately -

ll. PAQERLUND was in attendance at the sazc dinner party and we
departed iomediately for the Air Base. Upon arvivai at approxinately
2500 hours the BAGS atroraft had Already larnied a4 NOxdmuG wenurity

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| departure. He further stated he would not agree to further travel
‘ to the United States “axcept by commercial jet. wa tnen entered the
| Operations Office of the 7405th Flight Squadron where I was introduced
f to ROINE, who recited bastoally the sama story as told by TOCHENSKY.
We also ascertained that tho Plignt Surgeon had looked at the daughter
_ €24 had fount nothing organically wrong. We then asked ROODINE to.
bring FAGERLUND into the room where subject's fanily waa staying and
introduce him as an "srican Intelligence Service Medical Officer"
. and have PAGERLUWD oxamine the child, FACERIUND's resulta were tho
» ation ws given the child. A
en toak place as to how: best: to
proceed with onward transportation arrangements. KOODINE took me aside
and strenucusly icpressed me with the foot that sudject was of the

_ “ ; Relations was of great Perishabiiity and that ub ject deeply felt his

necessity to arrive tn Woahington and state this
the next 28 hours. ROODINE also stated he concurred in sub‘eet's feel-
ings. All KUBARK representatives then on the scene again got together
and the undersigned made the deotsion to abort the alssion, arrange |
imuediate safe-housing Overnight for subject and his family, and
‘ettempt comercial transportation on Sunday.

information witnin

~~" U3. Earlier in the day LYACK informed me thet ke had cleared out

their Eschborn safe-house in ease we should need tt. I immediately
tried to contact LYACK by phone but there wag no anawer,
Hehry RH. QANLINGAY (Deputy for Aduinistratioan Start) and asked hin to
do for me the following things: 0 2

~, ®e Conteot Stephen R. LACKLEN (c ) and tell him wo had
“, en ismediats need to house & amily of three, Plus two

KUBARK officers at Eschbo + To further tell LACKLEN to

_ be standing by at opel Circle opposite the Minneapolis |

Honeywell Building at 910) Heures ero’ be prepared to escort

| @nother vehiele to Zs-ntomn, _

Phone BEYTHAN and teil hin we wouldidron by his house
later thas evening to brief him an any developments,

Gs Phone IYACK:and tell him we were using Eschborn,

48. All concerned Septirted Wieabaden Air Base at approximately

0020 hours on 17 December end err! vad at the meeting point at Qpel
Circle at exactly 0100 houre, Subjoot's family Plus MULFALL, who had
- @ls0 gone immediateiy +o Wisstadsn,- foliowed LACKLEN's car to Keshhern

PAOERUMD, LAPOLLA, ROODINE, and nig3@lf went immediately to BENTIAM's
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15. BENTHAM was then fully briefed on developments and ROODINE
geve certain operational information of a sensitive nature fron subject
to BENTHAM. After necessary analysis and discussion the following
Geaieions were reached: . Lent im . ves

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@. .We would endeavor to rescve: the family out of Prankfurt

by comercial atroraft that day, i.0., Sunday, 17 Deceaber,

b. In the absence of the ability to accomplish this, we would
@ndeavor to remove them on an Air Force Medical Eveountian
Piight on Monday, 18 Decenbe:,

©. <2Beph Q. KLEMCK (Chief, COG/KURIOT) was contacted by
phone from HENTHAM's residense and said he.believed that
Ris people could affix in the subject's passports a
Pederel Kopublie entry stawp. This wag considered neces< |
sary in order to prevent. eaburrassing questions by German
immigration Authorities on Sunday when the family would
Cepart by commercial air. The family nad entered the .
Vederal iepublie “bleok" and Socordingly there was no
entry pormit in their Soviet Diplomatio passports.

+. ds We would return LAPOLIA and ROUDIME "to the safe-nouse and”
I woi.td aleo send out one enlisted guard with aidearn.

hespective missions. I proseeded to the Signal Center and reloased the
érafted cable. ;

lo ATs I arrived back at ay quartere about 0330 hora. At about 0420
hours I received a oall from KLEMACK, wanting to get in touch with

LAPOLLA on matters pertaining to the dooumentation work he was trying
to accomlian. I gave him the telephone nunber of the Eschborn safe-

house. .1t turned out that the cold weather nad affeated telephone com —

mmicationa to Ksehborn and the phone vse dena, HiZHACK then went oie

€o Rachborn and discussed his probicit with LAFOLLA and KOUDINE. I ag

, daformed, but as yet do’not know the tesonioal reason why, that KURIOT

Guild not put in the sudjoot'a passport the required German entry stamp. |

It wes decided at the meeting at the Kaohborn safe-house that KURIOT

would try to make and have ready by tle noxt morning [Austrian] passporta
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i for subject and his family.

- 18, At about 0600 hours I received a call from the Signal Center
Watch Officer informing mo that Headquarters “approved your plan." 1
aemediately tried to contact the Eschborn s@fo-house by phone but to no
avail. Around 0630 1 contacted KLUNACK at the AUMiUr installation and
was then informed by him of his earlior visit to Eschborn around 0400,
He told me during iis phone converzation that LAPOLLA wae going to get
up about O70 hours. I surmised that LAPOLLA would proceed immediately

to the office and then did so myself,

- " 36. A cable to Headquarters was drafted on the basis of all this
information and everyone departed the HENTHAN reaidence for their

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19. LAPOLZA arrived at the office sometime shortly after 0800,
then discussed wnat our possibilities were, based : «
we then sae it. we had no guarantee that the [Austrian] passports would 4
be finisned sy AURIOP in time to be used by an “early afternoon United. i
States flag comercial Jet. ke discussed again, as we nad the rravious
evening, contacting Mr. willian Naylor,-the Pan Anerican Senior orfleer . 3
fm Germany and a Cleared and witting contact, as to whether or not he. : ao
could arrange to board passengers witnout going through Gersan iomigras : i a .
tion, 1.0., Passport Control. The question of the availability of seats i an
was also involved. LAPOLLA suggested tiat we Phone Naylor in his

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Parben Bullding and
and Naylor agreed
at khein/Main. to

that day “ut at midnight on Sunday they were dispatching a C=135 cone
He was further informed that 3% of

© Air Force and 4) to the Army to be
used only by Single military Personnel departing. to the States on”

Curiatnas leave. No fenilies could be sent on the flight, Inasmuch as
@ C-155 19 tho military cargo vereion of. a Boeing .707,.LAPOLLA and syself -
di : get military
authority to fly this family out. We decided against such course of
aotion for severe) reasons, We anticipated that there would be too
euch conversation among the single military personnel aboard the flight
. When they observed five aivilians, three of whom were obviously «
| family, flyirg m™m the same Plane. The fact that the six-year-old
- @aughter spoke no English also contributed to the adverse situation we
. anticipated. Secondly, subjeot and family had already been aboard ons
_ @Argo type alroraft and were reported t; OODINE to have made & serlag

. of uncomplinen reaarks of the typo transportation that they were
.  . being afforded, . . . . , .

*. Naylor arrived at the office at about 1000 hours and wag made
@@Merally aware of our problem. He was informed that the principal
" traveler involved was @ defecting Russian diplomat, plus wife and. ehdida,
- and that we were under obligation to expeditiously and securely retuen .
‘thes to the United States by Jet atrorart. .He was further informed

8 and we had no guarantee
that wo would have- the documentation by flight departure time of

+) PAA No. 75 at 1315 hours. We then asked him what he considered to ix:
. the poasibilities or working out. a proseturg $5 board the party “black”

_ Bnd to prevent any dlvulgencs cf their existence to the German Inmigrae
‘tion Authorities. After considerable discussion it appeared that there

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existed & very good possibility to get. ths passengers aboard the aire
eraft and successfully circumvent Oerman passport cantrols, Naylor
contacted his own assistant amd the PAA Operations Officer assigned to
Rhein/Main, both of wnos are United States citizens, and asked that
they proceed to tie airport and stand by to assiet him in tne handling |
Of sowe very important personages Hic ware departing an PAA No. 73.

He then ascertained that only three first class sents were available -
om thig flight. He told his assistant to scat two paasongers in the >
@iraraft lounge and he would accept full responsioility for 1%. This
ie Gomewnat touchy in tie airlines business as lounge seats have no .

eafety belte. He also knew additional first class scate were available.- - -- «--
out of London. :

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-@1. Im the meantime, KLAMACK and one of nis sen working on the
d@oownentation had returned to Eschborn to pictures of subject and
his family that would be necessary for thefiusitr puasports. >The
, Best reading we could get froa the KURIOT people working.on the doou-.
ments was that they would not be ready on time. Inasmugh as decisions

had been made, we decided tc set the wheels in motica and started the

. family to the airport. LAPOLLA accordingly took off for Eschborn and

“@ plan was agreed upon where ho would arrive with the family in front

- Of tho Rhein/Main Departure Hullding et 1230 hours,. Naylor «ould be - .
standing by the entrance and take the family via a circuitous airport

Building route to the PAA Operations Office which te located on the

 @eoend Floor of the building beyond Passport Control. Naylor departed

at about the same time as LAPOLIA and went direatly to the airport.

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22. Earlier in the morning I had asked BENTHAM 1f he could effect
arrangements at the Consulate to have a Vieo Officer standing 4 to put
United States visitors’ visas for subject's family in.the wsthisn] pass=
’ ports. BaicSHAM accomplished this and, at Naylor's avggestion, we asked |

if the Consulate Officer could go to.the FAA. Operations Office at Rhein/
Mair, and etend by there to ascommligh his visa work. BF 66 Going we -
could save spproximately 56 minuves time, 1 contacted Mr. Rollie White
*, Of the Consulate office and ne agreed to mest us at the airport at. |

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“ 23. I next phoned BENTHAM ond made hie avsre of our situation. It |
. id not look as if we would have any useble dosummtation to pass the
fanily and would have to take tie chance of uircurventing the Passport
Control. Our prinoipal concern was that a Geren Insigration Officer
would be standing by the aircraft departure area and “ould ank to see
Bubjeot's pagsport. Wo could not get subject's famLly aboard the
Seguler bug that gees from tne departure bullding te the atroraft
.. because there was no way we would get them to tis bus loading area /
(7 Without going thro-gzh Pasaport Contrel, EENTA esked how we evaluated
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authorities. I told him the chances were better than even and that we
would appeal to the fact that this was a VIP party being handled out of
the regular airport procedures and that tie passports had been left in
the PAA «ffice. we would then. put the party back in tne vehicle ‘tnat’’ *
took then out and just keep going. ‘BENTHAM authorised us to proceed
with the “black” evacuation. . ; Lo

@S. I then made one last call to KLRIOT and told them if they-could.

BOL complete their work and get the passports to the airport. by 1315.
houre to forget it. with that MULFALL and ayself left for Khein/Main,

35. We arrived at Rhein/Main exactly at 1250 hours as subject's
party was drawing up. The group nes then taken by a ciroultous route
Geo the PAA Operations Cffice.. It-was cscertained that PAA No. T> would”
arrive at 1245 hours, approximately thirty minutes late.

' 86, During our weit at the PAA Operations Office, RODIME got me
Seide three or four times and kept me continuously aware of subject's
Tear that an attempt vould be asde to sabotage his plane. ‘le nad ,
@videnced this concern ever sinre his arrival in Frankfurt. * Subject ~
told ROODINE he felt sure that Soviet agents would be found among some
Of the employees of the commercial airlines and the managenent of Knein/
Wain Airport. He mentioned the section of the RI3 that works specifically ©
OA ASsansinations and sabotage. He was fearful of. any baggage being |
loaded very late or any "spare baggage” that might be fsund aboard: the
@iroreft. I told ROGDINE we were very sympathetic but we were not about
to ask Naylor, wno had now gone much further than one could be reasonably
expected to on our behalf, to off-load the baggage of 184 passengers

and search it. oS ‘

27. Two events happened while we were waiting in the office to
board the parties that were of some disturbance. The airplane Gaptain
reported to the PAA Operationg Officer that a gun was found aboard: the:
plane. Upon investigation it. was determined that this gun belonged to
an Armed Poroes courier who hod carridd classified material on the air=
orem to Frankfurt. Ths airplane sapiain, upon being asked by Naylor
af tnore pad beon eny unusual activities on the part of the passengers,

“then deacribed one party flying in the first-olass compartment, This
Plight od eririnated in San Franoiasce and was flying around the world
-Weatbouid., At New Delhi a United States citizen, a correspendent for
@n unknown newspaper, boarded the plane with his wife and a female nurse,

Tha fight orew hac bean informed that he wes en alechclis ard was ceing _
retumes co the United States at the request of the United States Embassy
@t New Delhi.. For zart of the trip he had aoted in scsewnat of an tone
otnoxious feshion aii had insulted some of the other passengers. The

, Captiin had investigated the situation and was of the opinion that the

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te insult anybady. IT asked the Captain 3f there was

® purser or a
male attendant assigned to the first-class section,

| gfave reservation about now going forward
eorrespondent. It was @y opinion,

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8B, Bubject's party, accompanied by Maylor and the PAA Cperetions |
Offtoer departed tne Offloe at 1525 hours, entered a PAA crew bus,

29, At about 1500 houre sti phoned to RIO and tote Ralph 0,
that he had another thirty minutes to get the(A y

a to the airport because of tha Giroreft'a delayed departure. The
“+ ht) Austrian peasporte arrived at approxisately 1345 hours,
eran teh

Hollie White
toly atarted to enter in those passports the United Stare,

viettor's visas, at approximately 1555 the FAA Ground Crew Giser .
Rotified PAA Operations that Plight No. 73 was mechanically oleared for.
_ oparture and completely loaded. At that time a PAA revreser*-tiva
_ Started to rim ree the Ssparture Buliding to the plang with
" plese of lucsass, Naylor was coming back from the Plane in
bus. Ho intercepted the PAA employee and tock ths ‘bag and drove it
Beok to the plane. He later tolé us he opened the bag, one of the
- Oo tldgnt beg variety, and on his om initiative examined the contents.

It contained items of ®ppare] used by ladies that will not be further

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At 1400 the Ground Crew Chier stated again the plane ag r ay.
. for departure and asked why the plane was being held up. It was being =~

+ |. held up because Wnite bad not finished all the entries cx tis Pascporta,.
> “+, However, the Pan Operations Officer informed the Ground Crew Chief that

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the “ignt of the loaded plane had been ioned and they were recam
PUR total weignt. At about 1405 tne (Aus tan] bassporte with United
: SYAV vieas vere carried in a bram eavelope by a PAA United Staves
, Bitiwen employes and gives to RODWDE. The plane was then cleared for
_— Cepeiture and rolled out at 1418 hours.

. Ay The only other information mom at the tine of this writing
+> €0 RON the atrorart was diverted to Bermuda because of bad weatner

- °; @90@AR one In Mew York. baylor telephoned me thit information about
, WS Noure on Monday morning, 15 Decender.

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